“I am twenty-four years old when they amputate Baba’s foot.” So begins Mai Serhan’s I Can Imagine It for Us: A Palestinian Daughter’s Memoir. She sits by her father’s bedside in a cramped bedroom in Beirut, trying to care for him, but she cannot mend what is broken: he is a man severed from both land and body, his missing foot a brutal, haunting echo of a lost country.
Then the story takes flight....
